The Fuego volcano, in Guatemala, erupted, accompanied by explosions, lava fronts and ash projections, announced the authorities, who so far have not issued an evacuation order.
“The Fuego volcano has shown an increase in its activity, which in the last few minutes has entered the eruption phase,” the Guatemalan National Institute of Volcanology (Insivumeh) said in a statement on Saturday.
The eruption of the volcano, 3,763 meters high and located 35 kilometers southwest of the capital, Guatemala City, has generated “constant weak, moderate and strong explosions,” the institute added.
Insivumeh also noted the appearance of an “incandescent fountain” of lava rising more than 500 meters above the crater and a column of ash rising more than a kilometer above the top of the volcano, Insivumeh said.
Until now, no evacuation order has been issued to the communities that live near the volcano, according to the spokesman for the National Coordination to Combat Natural Disasters in Guatemala, Rodolfo García.
In 2018, an eruption of the Fuego volcano (literally: “volcano of fire”), one of the most active in Central America, killed 215 people and left a similar number missing in rural communities near the volcano.
Two other volcanoes are also active in Guatemala: Santiaguito, in the west of the country, and Pacaya, 20 kilometers south of the capital.
Source: TSF
